Definition of WELTSCHMERZ
1: mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state
2: a mood of sentimental sadness
Not quite as good as ENNUI but I like that the Germans have a word for this kind of soul crushing sadness - as they should.
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5 comments:
Thanks for this, Cal, another fine German word to add to my arsenal.
Yeah and those morose Swedes too -- angst.
You can never have too many words for being really miserable.
Like Eskimos have fifty words for snow, I want fifty words for my existential angst.
WELTSCHMERZ is my default setting. And yes, I am of German descent.
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